New UCH Policy Nixes All Health Industry Gifts
It's not just a case of no more free lunches; it's an effort to remove even the suggestion that health care industry gifts influence clinical decision making.  |
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| Volunteer "patient" enters UCH Emergency Department during disaster exercise May 15. | |
May 15 "Disaster" Got Hospital's Pulse Racing As Planned
With choppers flying, investigators swarming and providers hustling, UCH and The Children's Hospital participated in a metrowide exercise designed to test military and civilian response to a disaster. |
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| Barcode scanning system helps prevent medication errors. | |
Roll-out Complete, Medication Barcode Benefits Pile Up
It took much time, effort and communication between hospital departments, but studies show the effort -- now complete in all inpatient units save one -- could reduce medication errors by at least two-thirds. |
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| Research by neonatologists at UCD helped show high-protein formula now used at UCH and other NICUs can help preemies gain much-needed weight faster. | |
NICU Formula: More Nutrients, Faster
A feeding strategy developed by researchers at UCD helps fragile neonatal intensive care unit babies gain weight faster. Questioned a decade ago, it's now the standard of care internationally. |
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| Internal Medicine's Binswanger devotes her efforts to closing gaps in health care for vulnerable populations. | |
Health Care for the Unpopular: Physician Makes the Case
UCH internist Ingrid Binswanger is leading a charge to raise awareness of and close an often-fatal gap in health care for just-released inmates. It's not only humane, she argues; it makes economic sense. | |
New beds, a month early Short of medical/surgical beds since the day it moved to the Anschutz campus, the hospital this week opened 18 new ones on the 7th floor wing formerly occupied by Inpatient Psych. Above: the 7 East Internal Medicine Unit team in its new digs. Sidebar: a look at the pre-opening "beehive." 
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Hospital wins brighten otherwise gloomy legislative session Thanks to a new "provider fee" and a primary care office for Medicaid patients, UCH and other hospitals found some reason for cheer in the just-concluded legislative session. But cuts to the university and the still-faltering economy dominated business at the capitol.
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Drawing closer to Magnet Going for a third redesignation as a Magnet institution -- considered the "gold standard" for nursing care -- hospital leaders are pushing hard to get all "direct care" nurses to participate in an annual nursing survey that begins June 1.
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The parking plan: stability at last? Five weeks after the big change, patient complaints have evaporated, overflows in the Leprino Garage appear to be over and parking for employees seems to have finally settled into a routine. But hospital leaders are pondering how to prevent illegal parking they're convinced helped to create the crunch in the first place.
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Inside the Insider:EMRs not ready for prime time? Commentary: The ever rational, famously calm CT Lin has an answer: nuts to that! Plus: what you read.
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Information Systems continues to green up With most computer hardware officially classed as hazardous waste, Information Services has turned into one of the hospital's greenest departments.
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Even "old dogs" learn new tricks A veteran care team assistant wasn't happy about going in for new training she thought was for "newbies." After taking the course, though, she says she's a believer. Second of a two-part series.
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New protocol aims to speed up inpatient stroke care It takes a brisk 29 minutes to get a patient exhibiting stroke systems from the ED to the CT unit for a scan. If the patient exhibits the symptoms in a hospital room, it takes a precious 60 minutes longer. A new Stroke Alert protocol rolled out to all providers aims to close that gap.
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Now showing at the Cancer Center Eighteen works of art by UCH cancer survivors -- plus more from a national traveling exhibit -- express the range of emotions in dealing with the disease. Art therapist Gail Opsahl (above) helps patients develop their work and curates the exhibit, now on display in the Anschutz Cancer Pavilion.
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Program growth detailed The Cancer Center's 2008 Annual Report showed it achieved significant growth in key progam areas, including lung cancer, hematologic malignancies/blood and marrow transplant, breast cancer and more. View the full report:
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: President's Award winner (left); major gift to School of Medicine; "Cancer Survivorship" event; ride to support transplant; more...
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